warmseth
Thu 4/20/06, 11:38PM
Well This month marked my second group of races since my big fast lowside in the very fast and windy turn 8 last month. I figured my accident last month was due to my being slid all the way back in the seat and not keeping more weight over the front. Therefor, I did my best to stay up on the front of the bike and not let any front end shenanagans take place again. Still even with that technique, the front was getting blown around a bit in T8 and I was essentially pussy footing it around the track especially in T8 and T2 where the long fast rights that were subject to interferance by the wind, got my nerves standing on end. my goal was to try to get back into the 30's this month and with that in mind, I failed. My best times have been 37's and I was running a glacial 42-44 last month after wrecking. I DID manage to get it down to 40 this weekend and for that slight improvement, i'm gratefull. I guess I just need more and more laps between myself and the incident.
My first race was F-Twins lightweight. i had a great grid position (5) and had a good start but when faced with going into turn 1 four abreast, i seem to back down and let 'em have it. and so i did. ultimately i got passed by just about everybody and ended up finishing second to last after the race was red flagged by Brienne's unfortunate crash (BTW Brienne, you were hauling ass until you crashed...congrats on the lap times).
my second race was 550 superbike and it was sort of a mediocre race for me too except the one glimmer of light in it is that on the last lap coming over the crest in T6 i looke behind myself and saw that Steven Brefka's gorgeous orange bike was barrelling towards myself, i was able to muster enough balls to position myself well enough to agressively shut the door on him in T7 and when i looked back again coming out of T9 I realized I must have really ruined his drive through there 'cause he was a long ways back. So sorry Steven, but take solice in knowing you provided me with a good bit of racing excitement for the weekend.
Anyway, bit of a lackluster report, I know, but that's the way it goes sometimes and I anticipate having a much better weekend in May.
See you all then
My first race was F-Twins lightweight. i had a great grid position (5) and had a good start but when faced with going into turn 1 four abreast, i seem to back down and let 'em have it. and so i did. ultimately i got passed by just about everybody and ended up finishing second to last after the race was red flagged by Brienne's unfortunate crash (BTW Brienne, you were hauling ass until you crashed...congrats on the lap times).
my second race was 550 superbike and it was sort of a mediocre race for me too except the one glimmer of light in it is that on the last lap coming over the crest in T6 i looke behind myself and saw that Steven Brefka's gorgeous orange bike was barrelling towards myself, i was able to muster enough balls to position myself well enough to agressively shut the door on him in T7 and when i looked back again coming out of T9 I realized I must have really ruined his drive through there 'cause he was a long ways back. So sorry Steven, but take solice in knowing you provided me with a good bit of racing excitement for the weekend.
Anyway, bit of a lackluster report, I know, but that's the way it goes sometimes and I anticipate having a much better weekend in May.
See you all then